Sunday, March 27, 2022

Becoming Part of Homegrown National Park

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I've always liked native plants--stately cottonwoods ( Populus deltoides ), dramatic redbuds ( Cercis canadensis ), robin-attracting ser...
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Sunday, March 20, 2022

Plant Story--Little Red Radishes, Raphanus sativus

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The radish is an ancient vegetable that has been mainly reduced to a garnish.  radishes, Raphanus sativus Calling the radish just a condimen...
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Sunday, March 13, 2022

It is Spring, Some Places

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Spring is late on the Front Range of Colorado this year. It is almost mid-March and my yard is under snow. Again. Normally I would have snow...
Sunday, March 6, 2022

Plant Story--Weeping Willow, Salix babylonica

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I was four years old when my parents rented an old house in Scotia, New York. That was the 1950s; my father shoveled coal into the furnace e...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Evening Primroses in Early Modern Science

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Missouri evening primrose, Oenothera missouriensis Evening primroses are a group of moderately obscure North America wildflowers (genus...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

Plant Story-- Eastern Catmint, an Ornamental Nepeta Species

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Catnip, Nepeta cataria , is famous, the plant that is a cat drug. Its genus Nepeta, however, includes from 251- 350 species, native to the ...
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Sunday, February 13, 2022

Have You Seen...? An Eclectic Botanical Quiz

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This week's post is a gallery of very neat plants. I have snow on the ground, snow in the forecast; its a good time to look at colorful ...
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